I have to agree with you that Joomla has some tricky SEO issues to deal with but once you have the necessary tools such as the one mentionned in this article and everything is setup properly, it works great.

Interesting point of view. Are you telling us that Google is violating its own webmaster guidelines by paying employees to link back to its new services? The only difference is the item on the receipt because I really doubt those same employees would be linking to Google every week without being paid for it. Are their lives that boring?

It would be naive to think that what Goolgers do online is not somehow business related. Would Matt Cutts blog about Google if he wasn't working there and getting other financial benefits from having Google perform well as a corporation? Would you blog about your employer unless you were paid for it? I mean common! Just take some time to look at Matt Cutts' online activity and you might even start wondering if it is always him behind the keyboard after noticing that the poor guy would not get any sleep if he was really doing all that. ;) September 25, 2008

Diggers hate SEOs? How about you start a group of SEO diggers that would publish articles according to a pre-determined schedule? For example, you digg Rand, Rebecca and Frank on Monday. Daniel, Mike and Tom on Tuesday, etc. For 5 diggs/day over a month you would need 140 users, meaning once a month you would digg an article that would get over 100 diggs from group members, plus their digg friends and random diggs. Not too bad right? Although since Digg recently changed its algorithm to fight group voting, make sure group members don't add each other as friend on Digg.

In other words, Google is penalizing "some" websites for using anchor text in blog comments that end up in a section reserved for recent comments. You know the result if it is a very popular blog...your link ends up on hundreds of pages overnight with the same anchor text, which according to Matt's #5 answer is considered as being "agressive". So how come his site is ranked at #1 for "matt cutts" when he uses his name as blog signature himself? Am I just being paranoid? lol September 03, 2008

I've been keeping an eye and Live Webmaster Tools for a while and I appreciate their new tools. Google Webmaster Tools takes way too long before updating stuff so Microsoft is offering an nice alternative. I am just wondering about their page and domain scores. It doesn't seem to be very accurate right now. August 15, 2008

Personally, I've seen sites jumping 2-3 pages up in results after doing nothing else than adding a link to another related site. Was Google rewarding the site for being active again or for adding a link to a relevant site? Something is sure, it did not hurt the site at all so why not if it is relevant? I would think the Google team would have found a solution for link hoggers by now. ;) August 05, 2008